Thank you again. This helps a lot

遅くなりましたが sound more formal than　遅くなりましたけど.

And man that is a fast lesson. Normally I don’t have any problems understanding the native speed but this time. oh my! The husband’s parts anyway. Japanese women seem to speak more clearly then man.

1. The construction ‘o-yasashii’ does exist in very formal Japanese, but a (modern-day) wife would not use it to her husband. ‘Yasashii’ cannot be used to describe a day; as Jessi mentioned above, however, with different kanji it can be used to describe exams or tests (’easy’). The use or exclusion of honorific prefix o- and the fact that ‘yasashii’ cannot be used to describe a day have nothing to do with each other.

2. ‘Dou iu kaze no fukimawashi’ is an idiom (and is really not beginner level - I think Sensei was having some fun throwing it in here ) meaning ‘What’s got into you?’ or literally ‘What kind of wind is blowing?’ As with idioms in any language, breaking it down into its separate parts is not going to help you very much. You’re right that ‘dou iu’ means broadly ‘what’ or ‘what kind’. This function of ‘iu’ is intermediate level, so if possible I would really recommend that you not worry about it right now at your current stage… but you’re right that it equates to something like ‘be called’ in English. Your translation is right: “What is this unexpected direction of the wind?” Idioms are of course the last thing one masters in a foreign language, so don’t worry too much about them at the moment.

1) As for “Kyou wa yasashii ne,” suppose ‘yasashii’ could be used to describe a day as well (which, it seems, it cannot, judging from the above convo), would the wife otherwise have said: “Kyou wa o-yasashii ne”? In other words, is the honorific ‘o’ prefix left out because ‘yasashii’ can’t be used to describe a day to begin with?

2) I’m seriously tripping over this “Dou iu kaze no fukimawashi” phrase! So, I looked up ‘fuki,’ and it says ‘unexpected/accidental.’ So far so good. But what does ‘iu’ (= to say) do here? I know you could say “Dou iu koto da?” (To mean like: What are you talking about?). But how does the verb ‘iu’ function here? Or can ‘iu’ be used like we would use ’said of = is called’ in English? It would make sense. Then you’d get something like: “How is this unexpected direction of the wind called?” Or simply: “What is this unexpected direction of the wind?” It’s hard to fit in ‘iu’ in any other fashion, really.

Thank you.

Thank you for pointing out this issue! I fixed the learning center, and also create a new type of lesson note called “Lesson Notes Lite.” Can you try this PDF, please?
Thank you!